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The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

Set during the Hundred Years' War in 1366-1367, it follows young Alleyne as he leaves his sheltered abbey life to discover the world.

"The White Company" by Arthur Conan Doyle is a historical adventure novel. Set during the Hundred Years' War in 1366-1367, it follows young Alleyne as he leaves his sheltered abbey life to discover the world.

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The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell. Peat-cutters on Blackdown and fishers upon the Exe heard the distant throbbing rising and falling upon the sultry summer air. It was a common sound in those parts—as common as the chatter of the jays and the booming of the bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised their heads and looked questions at each other, for the angelus had already gone and vespers was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beaulieu toll when the shadows were neither short nor long?

All round the Abbey the monks were trooping in. Under the long green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks and of lichened beeches the white-robed brothers gathered to the sound. From the vine-yard and the vine-press, from the bouvary or ox-farm, from the marl-pits and salterns, even from the distant iron-works of Sowley and the outlying grange of St. Leonard's, they had all turned their steps homewards. It had been no sudden call. A swift messenger had the night before sped round to the outlying dependencies of the Abbey, and had left the summons for every monk to be back in the cloisters by the third hour after noontide. So urgent a message had not been issued within the memory of old lay-brother Athanasius, who had cleaned the Abbey knocker since the year after the Battle of Bannockburn.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. How the Black Sheep Came Forth from the Fold.
  2. 02Chapter II. How Alleyne Edricson Came Out Into the World.
  3. 03Chapter III. How Hordle John Cozened the Fuller of Lymington.
  4. 04Chapter IV. How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men.
  5. 05Chapter V. How a Strange Company Gathered at the “Pied Merlin.”
  6. 06Chapter VI. How Samkin Aylward Wagered His Feather-Bed.
  7. 07Chapter VII. How the Three Comrades Journeyed Through the Woodlands.
  8. 08Chapter VIII. The Three Friends.
  9. 09Chapter IX. How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood.
  10. 10Chapter X. How Hordle John Found a Man Whom He Might Follow.
  11. 11Chapter XI. How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock.
  12. 12Chapter XII. How Alleyne Learned More Than He Could Teach.
  13. 13Chapter XIII. How the White Company Set Forth to the Wars.
  14. 14Chapter XIV. How Sir Nigel Sought for a Wayside Venture.
  15. 15Chapter XV. How the Yellow Cog Sailed Forth from Lepe.
  16. 16Chapter XVI. How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys.
  17. 17Chapter XVII. How the Yellow Cog Crossed the Bar of Gironde.
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. How Sir Nigel Loring Put a Patch Upon His Eye.
  19. 19Chapter XIX. How There Was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew's.
  20. 20Chapter XX. How Alleyne Won His Place in an Honorable Guild.
  21. 21Chapter XXI. How Agostino Pisano Risked His Head.
  22. 22Chapter XXII. How the Bowmen Held Wassail at the “Rose De Guienne.”
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. How England Held the Lists at Bordeaux.
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. How a Champion Came Forth from the East.
  25. 25Chapter XXV. How Sir Nigel Wrote to Twynham Castle.
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. How Roger Club-Foot Was Passed Into Paradise.
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. How the Comrades Came Over the Marches of France
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine.
  30. 30Chapter XXX. How the Brushwood Men Came to the Chateau of Villefranche.
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. How Five Men Held the Keep of Villefranche
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. How the Company Took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree.
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. How the Army Made the Passage of Roncesvalles.
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna.
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle.
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from His Eye.
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. How the White Company Came to Be Disbanded.
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. Of the Home-Coming to Hampshire.

About this edition

Author
Arthur Conan Doyle
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
407 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers